Imagine the following situation: some lost lemming posts a random beans fact in a comm that you moderate. It sparks a cool discussion, but it's completely off-topic. In this situation, what do you do?

If you remove the post, you're being that annoying mod telling users to stop having fun. But if you keep the post there, you're encouraging people to post even more off-topic in the comm. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Because of that, I think that it would be cool if we had the ability to migrate posts from one comm to another. This could be done in two steps:

• mods can "kick" a discussion out of their comms. Those discussions end in a specific comm called c/off-topic, c/general, or whatever the admins of that instance (yup) decide.
• mods can also "adopt" discussions from c/off-topic and bring to their comms.

I feel like this would be the best of both worlds - it's less disruptive to community, but it still allows users to discuss their random junk.

For reference, Ruqqus had a similar feature, with the +general guild being mostly off-topic stuff. It worked fairly well IMO. 4chan also does something similar to the first step, with the /trash/ board.

I'm sharing this old article because it's useful to contrast the situation back then (protests against hate speech) and now (protests due to the APIcalypse).

Here are a few highlights:

• Back then, the admins were already eager to shift their discourse back and forth, depending on the convenience. Reddit was always about free speech, then it never was.
• Former CEO Yishan Wong's "[shutting down subreddits] won't become a regular occurrence"
• If you try to follow the link sourcing the quote above, you'll notice that most Reddit blog official communications towards users are gone. Instead you'll find a blog clearly geared towards investors, vulture capital, and corporate.

Any other old piece of news that you guys feel like sharing, that can be contextualised to show Reddit going downhill?

Archive link for the mod statement. From the statement itself:

Anyway, here are some things to keep in mind:

• Gore and pornography are still not allowed in /r/PICS.
• Remain civil toward one another.
• Do not violate the site-wide rules.
• This link directs back to this comment.
• It is normal to experience special feelings while looking at John Oliver.

This paper describes an IMO rather interesting approach towards fake news, through their morphological content: the words from each piece of news (real and fake) were grouped into categories, then the researchers made a statistical analysis of the usage of those categories in real and fake news. And they found out that:

• fake news tend to use more foreign words, adjectives and nouns
• real news tend to use more W-words (who, what), determiners, prepositions and verbs

I think that their findings are damn useful. Perhaps not to detect fake news, but to understand how they work on a discursive level. For example, the usage of foreign words in fake news caught my attention - perhaps they're used to mask the underlying meaning of the utterance? While real news are focused on describing events, and thus rely more on verb usage?

Please hide WN/LN/manga spoilers.

MAL entry, Anilist. The zeroth episode is a spin-off-ish, focusing on Sylphy after the Calamity meeting with Ariel, becoming "silent Fitz", and struggling with her new situation; as well as the power struggles between Ariel and her brother I-always-forget-his-name for the Asuran throne.

It seems that activity in Reddit was considerably slower around the 1st of July, by roughly 1.5k comments per minute. (For reference: the platform usually has between 8k and 3k comments per minute.)

I wonder if there's some way to measure their quality too, as I predict that it dropped harder than the amount.

This will probably interest people who are just tipping their toes into Phonetics, as well as language leaners.

Excerpt from the text:

However, effective immediately, we plan to discontinue the following activities that we performed, as volunteer moderators, that took up a huge amount of our time and effort, both from a communication and coordination standpoint and from an IT/secure operations standpoint:

1. Active solicitation of celebrities or high profile figures to do AMAs.
2. Email and modmail coordination with celebrities and high profile figures and their PR teams to facilitate, educate, and operate AMAs. (We will still be available to answer questions about posting, though response time may vary).
3. Running and maintaining a website for scheduling of AMAs with pre-verification and proof, as well as social media promotion.
4. Maintaining a current up-to-date sidebar calendar of scheduled AMAs, with schedule reminders for users.
5. Sister subreddits with categorized cross-posts for easy following.
6. Moderator confidential verification for AMAs.
7. Running various bots, including automatic flairing of live posts

Sometimes users submit some content (post or comment), and due to a bug or performance issue the content doesn't appear, even if the instance already saved it. So the user resubmits it over and over... like this:

(This is not my own comment, but I had this issue already.)

While this isn't usually done for the sake of spam, it's still a source of noise for the community, and annoying for the user oneself.

So my suggestion is that, when a user tries to submit a piece of content to Lemmy, Lemmy should compare it with the last piece of content already submitted. And if they're identical, prevent it with some error "warning: duplicate" or similar.

There's a general tendency across languages to order the adjectives connected to the same noun the same way; for example, usually adjectives referring to colour or other innate attributes are closer to the noun than the ones dealing with subjective attributes. This tendency is so strong that made some linguists (and psychologists) believe that this order might be actually innate.

This study contradicts that. Excerpt from the conclusion:

Taking these findings together, we have argued that there is no universal hierarchy for adjective ordering imposing a hard constraint which then translates into one rigid, unmarked order.

Plenty Google Search users were appending "site:reddit.com" to their searches to avoid SEO and get actual human answers. This became less useful with the blackouts, and Google is actually addressing it - through a new feature called "Perspectives". Allegedly the feature highlights forums and videos from social media (TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, Quora).

This means that those search users won't beeline towards Reddit anymore. Instead there's a reasonable chance that they end in Reddit's competitors, including Youtube (owned by Alphabet, the same parent company as Google Search).

Given that 47% of the traffic of Reddit comes from organic search, this is going to hurt. A lot.

TL;DR: say hello to our friend u/ModCodeOfConduct, disguising threats behind feigned politeness, yet again!